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by snicky 2y ago
The second part of your comment reminded me about that South Park episode where Cartman was "reviewing" restaurants on Yelp ...
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by snicky 2y ago
What do your extensions do?
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by snicky 2y ago
I'd be interested in reading what you can share on this topic too. What was the most enlighting / interesting read for you so far? Can you point to a single book or two?
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by snicky 2y ago
Once I've heard that Mong Kok area was the most densely populated neighbourhood in the world.
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by snicky 2y ago
After the famine in 90s both the party and the people realized that the state can't really guarantee any food security so it's mostly taken care of by free market as anywhere else in the world now. Trading goods may not be entirel
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by snicky 2y ago
Maybe the issue is that you are too talented / experienced / demanding to look for a job in this thread? Most offers here come from small startups or teams that are unable to pay $500/h or 1M in TC. FWIW I've been hired
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by snicky 2y ago
An interview for a backend dev position with a CTO where the only technical question I had to answer was "how would you design a messaging service?". Looking back I find those open-ended system design questions best. They allow yo
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by snicky 3y ago
> It feels very, very hard to be faster than 2.5 hours with a plane to go pretty much anywhere Unless you are already at the airport, transferring.
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by snicky 3y ago
FWIW, as a EU-based contractor for an American company I can tell you that from my perspective the form of payment legally doesn't matter at all. I receive transfers from a European bank account registered with their EU subsidiary, but
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by snicky 3y ago
https://bitwarden.com/ Free and open source
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by snicky 4y ago
Are you saying loading spinners will be the signature of our time?
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by snicky 4y ago
Isn't the burden on that working body half 2x then?
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How the UAE got a spacecraft to Mars – on the first try(bbc.com)
1 points by snicky 4y ago|1 comments
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by snicky 4y ago
Secret Hitler and Avalon are so intense they can literally break relationships or cause months-long disputes between friends. I love it :)
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Ask HN: Toys or materials to teach 3 year olds “programming”?
3 points by snicky 4y ago|5 comments
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by snicky 4y ago
I'd argue this is proving we are getting closer to a human-like GAI. Try to imagine you force a student to answer questions on topics he doesn't know much about...
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by snicky 4y ago
Location: Poland / Taiwan Remote: Yes (7 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too) Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: * Backend - Ruby on Rails (12 YoE), SQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Heroku, AWS *
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by snicky 4y ago
https://redis.io/docs
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by snicky 4y ago
Do immigrants do this often? I mean sell their houses, cars and other belongings before moving abroad? It's a sincere question from someone who also considered emigrating for work at some point. I could never imagine getting rid of all
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by snicky 4y ago
Sorry, but when I see "Web Scale" or "MongoDB" I can't help but recall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by snicky 4y ago
It's not too late. Take your 10k and invest in one of hundreds of 1$ stocks right now. It's such a low risk proposition, isn't it? I hope you get the irony.
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by snicky 4y ago
It's all fun and games, but can't the auditors just challenge your "artistic production" by asking for the actual invoices proving any sort of income from it? I mean lots of costs and no related income is questionable A
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by snicky 4y ago
Buy Tinder Platinum
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by snicky 4y ago
It seems that the Lightning Network requires some degree of centralization which defies the main premise of Bitcoin, no?
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by snicky 4y ago
If you want to experience an entirely new culture you can try Japan or Taiwan. BYO remote job and you will have the best of both worlds.
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by snicky 4y ago
It's hard to evaluate art without the context of its origins. Michelangelo's works were done in 15th and 16th century, so it's quite obvious that similar art, no matter how detailed or precise couldn't have been consider
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by snicky 4y ago
Most recent: Wordle solver.
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by snicky 5y ago
Your question is too general to give you any elaborate answer, but I'll state the obvious and say that communication is one of the most important aspects in remote work. If you feel there's something off in the way the interviewee
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by snicky 5y ago
Damn, the internet suddenly starts to be fun again.
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by snicky 5y ago
The usual work: planning and developing new features, addressing bugs, dealing with tech debt, setting up infra, code reviews, writing documentation, etc.

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